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Link baiting seems to be all the rage in todays SEO world.  But we still get asked often “what is link baiting?” or “how does link baiting work?”

So in this article we thought we’d give you a brief recap of what link baiting is as well as some of the types of “proven” link baiting there are.

These examples of link building have been used by some of the best in the industry.

There are many ways to find links on the search engines.  All engines seem to have different ways to find and qualify these links.

In this article I look at MSN including it’s advanced link queries and how it too can be a valuable link building resource.

Too often link builders focus only on engines like Google, Yahoo! or MSN.  As such, they miss great opportunities like the Open Directory Project and other potential sources of links.

In this article, I look at yet another great source of link building.  One that uses technology unique to it.

In the past few articles I’ve given you tips on how to find other sources of links.  While some are pretty basic, a few of the tips were more advanced.

In this article, however, I look at how you can use Google to find many more links.

There are many ways to find links on search engines.  The most common is the typical “link:domain.com” or, in the case of Yahoo: “linkdomain:domain.com.”

But, there are other ways you can enhance these queries to make them even better at filtering the good from the bad and ugly.

In this article I look at some ways to modify these queries to find quality authority sites to help improve your link popularity.

Even with today’s search engines, link building is as important as ever.  However, any good SEO knows that link building can be a time consuming, often fruitless process.

Though, there is a way that you could build links from highly popular sites and even those closely related to you given the right circumstances.

In this article I explain how this is accomplished.

Jill Whalen wrote an excellent article today. It was titled “Buying Text Links - Is It Evil?”.  http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2959

She makes a lot of excellent points about how search engines handle “text link ads”.

One of the statements that stood out the most to me was:

The good news for search engines (and I guess the bad news for link brokers) is that most text link ads and the sites that sell them tend to leave noticeable “footprints” behind in the code.

My thoughts on that......IF YOUR BUYING LINKS FOR THE SAKE OF BUILDING LINK POPULARITY YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM LINK BROKERS/BUILDERS WHO ONLY USE AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGIES TO FEED LINKS ON EASY TO SPOT LINK NETWORKS!!!

Placing links without a network signature should be one of the primary goals of every link broker. At least any link broker who is selling links with the intention of boosting the link pop of its clients.

There are SOOO many advanced techniques for building links, why are people still buying links the old fashioned way?

The answer...… Because thats what most of the link brokers out there are selling.… Links on networks.  BAHHH HUMBUGGG, No wonder the term “link broker” has gotten a bad rap.

My advice… When buying links stay away from brokers who use automated link placement technologies.  Those sorts of links almost always leave a signature that the search engines can spot and will eventually end up being devalued. 

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Textlinkbrokers uses a manual placement process on about 95% of our inventory.  Each webmaster places links in their own format, which means there are no network signatures.  For the sites in our inventory that utilize our automated placement scripts, we try and randomize the ad block so that it does not leave a signature.

With all that being said, buying links that are placed in advertising blocks is far from the most optimal way to build links that look natural and work for the long term.  We still sell these sorts of links because they can be powerful in the short term, but we recommend to all of our customers that they utilize our more advanced long term link building programs in combination to buying “Ad Links”

Here are some of the more advanced link building programs that we offer.

- Hosted Marketing Pages - Optimized pages that are hosted on our inventory partner sites.  These pages link to your site in a very natural way which is nearly impossible for search engines to automatically detect.  They are also great for pre-selling your product or service.  The pages are informative and are custom written by out team of professional writers.  Each page is designed to be optimized for your keywords so that they can pass relevant link popularity to your site. 

- Article Marketing - Articles are great for building natural looking text links as well as announcing your website to the world, causing people to naturally link to you.  This is the service I recommend to all of our clients. 

- Permanent Links - Our Permanent links are designed to be high quality directory style links.  With strategic anchor text optimization as well as customized surrounding text, our perm links have helped thousands of our customers rank better.

- Custom Link Baiting and Link Management Programs - There are so many ways to build links.  The programs that we provide to the general public are designed to be “One size fits all”.  While that is great for most of our clients, our high level clients prefer our customized link building strategies.  Through custom link building programs we can creativily build links that can get even the most competitive industry sites to the top.

We have helped dozens of our clients rank in the top 3 for some of the most competive industries including:

Dating, Gambling, Home Loans and Mortgages, Software, Pharmaceutical and Health Products, to name just a few.

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Although our Account Managers work with clients starting at $50 per month, if you are interested in High Level, Strategic, Link Building Management/Consulting and have a budget of at least $10,000 per month, please contact me directly at Jarrod@textlinkbrokers.com I personally oversee all of our custom link building programs but am very picky about the customers I work with.  I only have a limited amount of time available for consulting so I prefer to work with customers who have good business models and who are looking to build out strategies for 1 yr or longer.

I’ve been asked on many occasions how to link static versions of search results page.

Usually what happens is the first page of these results gets indexed but none of the others do.

I’ve found a way to ensure that the remaining pages get indexed and I’m going to share it with you.

There is a tactic out there embraced by bloggers but rarely used by typical websites.  It is called Link Baiting. 

In this article I explain what link baiting is and how everyone, not just bloggers, can use it to build quality links.